The 4 to 7 percent increase in background radiation poses problems for sensitive scientific instruments. Geiger counters, ...

For over ten years, physicists pursued a mysterious particle that could have upended modern physics. Now, researchers say it ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

The joint NOvA-T2K analysis achieved unprecedented precision in measuring neutrino mass, a key step toward understanding ...

From ultracold silicon detectors in Texas to massive underground experiments, scientists are deploying new tools to catch ...

Dark matter and dark energy make up about 95% of the universe, leaving only 5% “ordinary matter,” or what we can see. Dr.

The universe looks bright and familiar when we look up at the night sky. We see stars, planets, galaxies, and glowing clouds ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.